N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2019

As the verse from the old Kenny Rogers song goes “ you have to know when to hold em and know when to fold em. Significant opportunities are not only scarce, but they typically operate on the principal of diminishing returns. Be careful however not to fall into the trap of “me too” innovation – don’t copy; create.

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Innovation Excellence

AUGUST 4, 2017

Allow me to explain the premise the way I learned it from Roger Martin, one of the best strategists on the planet. The operative word is “winning,” for the simple reason that if you’re not winning, you live in fear of the competitor. A winning strategy absolutely must begin with a winning aspiration. Too doctrinaire?

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LDRLB

JANUARY 13, 2014

The Batten Institute has been tasked with helping Darden become a thought leader in innovation entrepreneurship. I support that role by supporting our professors, doing research, and conducting our own research into practical questions around innovation. Some are kind of innovation powerhouses. ” ANDREW: It is great.

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Change Starts Here

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Rogers diffusion of innovation curve. Like the Kubler-Ross model the innovation adoption curve categorises people. It asks how quickly do we take to innovations – another type of change. It got me thinking… How does the Rogers adoption model link to the Kubler-Ross model? Or start earlier?

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 15, 2018

The difficulty in changing is often mostly about our psychology (not the technical difficulty of operating under changed systems and processes after making adjustments to adapt to take advantage of new opportunities). by Will Rogers, or somebody else. Whoever said it, it is certainly true.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

The company clearly had problems with low engagement, faltering customer service, rising costs from inefficient processes and quality problems, and low innovation. He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm.

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Mark Sanborn

JANUARY 12, 2022

Always open to new challenges, he seized the opportunity to lead a university with facilities that were a bit long in the tooth and that lacked any signs of innovating in the future. . As Roger Clodfelter, Senior V.P. So how did he meet the challenge of changing the staid academic culture to one that is today unique and innovative?

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

I emceed concerts with stars like Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Little Richard, Kenny Rogers, The Beach Boys, Roy Orbison, Simon & Garfunkel, Nelson Riddle, Dionne Warwick and Andre Previn. Non-profit organizations operating more business-like. Innovating programs, strategies and methodologies.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

David Foster Wallace provided an eloquent description of how muscle memory contributes to "kinesthetic sense" in a brilliant New York Times article about Roger Federer in 2006. That's all well and good, you are probably thinking, but what does this have to do with innovation? But there is a discipline to innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2014

We shouldn’t reform the patent system, they say, because there is no evidence that trolls are hindering innovation; these calls are being driven just by a few large companies who don’t want to pay inventors. It’s true that plaintiffs, including patent trolls, tend to file lawsuits in dynamic, innovative industries.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

The benefit of this kind of team activity, is the opening of one’s mind, and shared creative stimulus, which fosters innovation. One part of fostering creativity and innovation is to accept the inevitable failures. 5) Operational Transparency -. These are just a few examples. 2) Make Virtue an Organizing Principle -.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In 2009 Tony Scibelli, Vice President of Human Resources and Operations at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare learned that the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Nursing Officer were going to launch "relationship-based care," a comprehensive cultural change program to focus doctors' and nurses' attention on patients and their families.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

In the January issue of HBR, Roger Martin sets out some rules for avoiding common mistakes in strategy making. What IKEA did was to replace the warehouse atmosphere associated with most discount furniture retailers with a cheerful, innovative look and feel, wrapping its bare-bone offerings with an amusing set of attributes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. Innovation Leadership Strategy' And short-term numbers at that.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

When presented with a surprising idea, smart organizations will bravely listen, because what comes next might just be game-changing innovation. Twelve-year-old Roger Ruiz was expelled from his public school in rural Nicaragua. Today, Roger is president of the school, elected by his peers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2017

When Roger Enrico took the helm as CEO of Frito-Lay, in 1991, the company was developing an innovative and distinctive approach to direct-store delivery that would allow it to consistently deliver the right products to the right stores at the right time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2017

Yet for all its innovation, Amazon’s approach to managing its money has changed little in 20 years. It constantly plows capital into its long-term operations — often at the expense of short-term financial results. “It’s about helping customers avoid having to make yet another choice.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2014

Roger Federer can arguably be considered the greatest tennis player of all time, having won 16 Grand Slam titles—and yet he lost every French Open Championship he played against Rafael Nadal. And even though no one would deny Roger Federer’s overall tennis prowess, no one expects that he would win in every conceivable situation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

How do you maintain the cohesion” at a multinational corporation with far-flung operations spanning myriad cultures? More than ever, it’s imperative that all employees make innovation a priority, not just the R&D staff or the “new products” team. How do you organize your entrepreneurial within the managerial?” “How

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If your ideas are met with choruses of “that will never work,” “we can’t take that risk,” “let’s just stick with the plan,” your teammates are likely falling prey to a common decision making bias that former Rotman dean Roger Martin refers to as Underestimating the Risk of the Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2015

A whopping 70% had jobs that are best described as self-employed; ranging from owner/operator of Diva Day Care to selling on eBay to teaching piano lessons. Today’s teens are getting a completely different work experience than I did – and it’s better preparing them to be innovators.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

This type of app typically operates on the basis of a user pointing his mobile device towards an object or a site, in order to see superimposed content on the screen. Aside from try-ons, a rich body of research also shows that AR can be incredibly valuable for exploring various cultural, historical, and geographic aspects of an environment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

We were supposed to be coming up with ideas for improving the company’s customer experiences, but the head of operations could not think of a single new customer service idea to explore. They were happy to maintain the age-old silo between marketing and operations. I was stunned.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Yet there’s compelling evidence that bureaucracy creates a significant drag on productivity and organizational resilience and innovation. Operating decisions are almost entirely decentralized. More people are working in big, bureaucratic organizations than ever before. By our reckoning, the cost of excess bureaucracy in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2015

Schultz is already well-known as one of this generation’s CEO activists, a group which includes Goldman Sachs’ Lloyd Blankfein , Duke Energy’s Jim Rogers , and Google’s Eric Schmidt — and other high-ranking corporate leaders like Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg. But CEO activism is a different animal.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

You can change who James Bond is—Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig—without destroying the franchise… Whereas with Rocky, you’re pretty much stuck with Sylvester Stallone.” ” Read more from Harvard Business School Executive Education: How to Spot a Liar.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

It has become an axiom that “strategy is about making hard choices,” as we have been advised for over 20 years by leading thinkers including Michael Porter and Roger Martin. ” Faced with hard choices, innovators find ways to transcend the tradeoffs. Size and speed.

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LDRLB

MAY 26, 2014

The most recent being Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation. Paul Nunes and I have known each other for many years, and we’ve both been writing about the subject of disruptive innovation from different vantage points and different angles. DAVID: Yeah. That’s sort of what the article did.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Make you more innovative. b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. The list goes on.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2012

The fact of the matter is that periodically, technologies or business model innovations allow start-ups to enter industries offering services that are generally cheaper and more accessible, but of far lower quality. This is the essence of what we call "disruptive innovation." Bundling good. Internet expensive. Studios infallible.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Welcome to the dawning era of social innovation, in which more people aspire to tackle old problems in new ways with new tools. He had a goal.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

As more firms became multinationals, fewer showed loyalty to particular communities or any hesitation to migrate their operations to wherever costs were lowest. Employees were viewed more as fungible inputs to operations, and customers viewed more as targets within more and less lucrative segments. But it’s not good at innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Instead of reading like it was written by a committee of academics, it's as easy to understand as Mr. Rogers. It consists of thousands of super-skilled, conscientious, and objective analysts who visit each and every operating charity in America to do annual surveys. Instead of intimidating you, it invites you.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Virtually every executive is eager to see his or her organization innovate. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote. They may also know more about the customer—his needs and desires. Knowledge workers have to manage themselves,” Drucker advised. They have to have autonomy.”.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable? Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. I Think Not.

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